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mormyrin

mormyrin noun: any elephantfish of the subfamily Mormyrinae.

Noun

mormyrin (plural mormyrins)

  1. Any elephantfish of the subfamily Mormyrinae.
    • Several morphological characters readily distinguish Petrocephalus and the mormyrin genera, such as the presence of two closely apposed nostrils (versus non closely apposed in mormyrins) and the absence of the basisphenoid bone (versus presence in mormyrins; Taverne 1972).2016 June 9, Sébastien Lavoué, “Petrocephalus leo, a new species of African electric fish (Osteoglossomorpha: Mormyridae) from the Oubangui River basin (Congo basin)”, in Zootaxa, volume 4121, number...

Forms of mormyrin

pluralmormyrins

Questions about mormyrin

What does mormyrin mean?
Mormyrin means any elephantfish of the subfamily Mormyrinae.
What part of speech is mormyrin?
Mormyrin is a noun.
What is the plural of mormyrin?
The plural of mormyrin is mormyrins.

Words near mormyrin in the dictionary

  1. mormoopids
  2. mormos
  3. Mormugao
  4. mormyrid
  5. mormyrids
  6. mormyrin
  7. mormyrins
  8. mormyroid
  9. mormyroids
  10. mormyromast
  11. mormyromasts

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